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Spinach Salad with Fresh Chilean Grapes, Plums, Peaches and Kiwis Recipe

Kiwi Vinaigrette3 Kiwi peeled and chopped 3 TBLS orange juice 2-3 TBLS olive oil salt and black pepper to taste1 TBLS rice vinegar½ tsp Dijon mustard...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Spinach Salad with Fresh Chilean Grapes, Plums, Peaches and Kiwis Recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

269Calories
5 gProtein
2 gFat
65 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Green Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Kiwi1 medium (69g)42
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Plum + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Spinach + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Grape + plumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Grape + peachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, plum, peach, almond):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, plum, peach, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.